still growing

Whew...this time of year always gets busy. The saying "hurry up and wait" comes to mind. We only have two more rows to plant in the garden, but we're still thinking about what we want to plant.
I'm not sure yet how many pepper plants will survive, but it's looking like we should have at least 30 - we hope to have "ancho", "green and yellow bell" peppers. I'm also not sure how many of the tomato plants will survive, but we should have over 30 plants and there are at least 5 varieties which I'll have to list another time because it's raining right now and I'm not going to waltz out and check the name tags. We planted three different varieties of corn - "early choice", "silver princess" and "honey select". Hopefully this year we'll have a good crop of beans, we planted "Jade green bush" beans and we're trying black beans for the first time this year - the variety name is "black turtle" shelling beans. The swiss chard, spinach and potatoes are all growing well. The peas that were planted didn't grow very well and the blank spots were filled in about a week ago and the new planting has started. The cucumbers that we planted this week are: "moringa pickling" cucumbers and "sweet slice" cukes. We also put in a few "spooktacular" pie pumpkins and some butternut squash. Hopefully all 177 of the glad bulbs that I planted will grow (they are starting), and I have three hills of dahlias too. We have 6 hills of celery growing too. I wanted some fresh herbs, so we planted a packet each of dill, sweet basil and rosemary. Hopefully I'll get some sage too - nothing is better than fresh sage!
Finally got around to mulching the flower beds in the front of the property, and while we were at it decided to transplant some Hosta's and Columbine to fill in where plants died out over the winter.
Today while we were waiting for it to start raining, we decided to tear out the old shrubbery that was planted beside the house. Luckily we did get the old shrubs out, but the rain started before we had the opportunity to replant with Hostas. On the bright side...with the rain...I won't have to water the plants in the garden for at least a few days!
We survived the cold temperatures this week - one night the temperature fell to 28 degrees. Fortunately we had the strawberry plants and potatoes covered. Some of the strawberries were lost, and a few potato leaves got burned with frost, but unless we have a really late season frost things are looking pretty good.
Oh...and the asparagus tally for the year is up to 54 lb. 3 oz.!
I'll try to post some current photos soon.